Thoughts (Bukowski)
My girlfriend bought me a big collection of Bukowski for Christmas. I’ve been reading it off and on.
I’ve heard people say that Bukowski is just a tough and bitter old man. Maybe. That’s not what I love about his poems though.
To me Bukowski is like being conscious in a city. You see the poverty and the suffering and the way it doesn’t change and the way we don’t really care. It’s hard to look at that and not drink, smoke, watch television, distract yourself at all. Bukowski feels like wanting something more but being stuck where we all are. Bukowski is like seeing clearly how things actually are.
That’s what I like about Bukowski.
